The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-22
FLORIDA.

FLOhlDA.
Dominick Leckleitner, of Palatka, has
been granted pension for services in the
navy.
1t is believed that Clay county went dry
in Tuesdays election ON the prohibition
question.
The abstract office at Orlando is now go
ing over the old wills and arranging them
for the first time in abstract form. Some
rare specimens are found being real literary
curiosities. Most of them have a clause for
bidding the widow TO marry again.
Lakeland is to have first-class graded
academy. The academy building is being
built, and viii be ready for occupancy early
in October The Principal of the school
will be Prof. A. NJ. Baker, of Kentucky,
a graduate of the Indiana State Normal
School.
The official returns from Tuesdays cleo
ton in Alachua county show the following
majoritieS for the dry ticket Hawthorne
81, Island Grove 50, Micanopy 40, Windsor
100, Waldo 2. Archer "a, Newnansville l20,
Fairbanks ~. For the wet ticket: Gaines
vile So, Arredondo 50. Dry majority 345,
with several precincts yet to hear from. The
county is safely dry.
Joseph N. Haddock, who has been in the
employ of the United States Treasury de-
partment as Coast Inspector of Customs,
with headquarters at Cedar Keys, received
a communication from the department di-
recting him, until otherwise ordered, to
assume charge of the Ninth Special Agency
district, which embraces the customs coec-
ton of the State of Florida, except the dis
trict of Pensacola, with his official station
at Jacksonville.
The schooners City of Jacksonville and
Lois V. Chaples, bound from Jacksonville
to Baltimore, We're caught in gale off the
Cape of the Chesapeake last Friday and had
considerable damage done TO their rigging
The City of Jacksonville lost only her miz-
zen mast, and as soon as this can be
replaced, and she has been recaulked, she
will be loaded for her trip South, The
Lois " Chaples was not so fortunate She
had her flying jib, jib topsail and foretop-
sail carried away. Both schooners left
Jacksonville within an hour of each other
and arrived in Baltimore together.
! There is a new and very important indus
| try started in Orlando that few people are
as yet aware of, that being the manufacture
of "A most perfect ventilated building block.
| The blocks are made OF Portland cement
aud sand mixed in proportion suitable to
/ make a hard and durable artificial stone.
\ They are made hollow and ten inches thick,
| ten inches wide and thirty inches long, with
| grooves on the bottom and corresponding
| tongues on the top, so that every block viii
/ fitdown ami match, together like the tongues
and grooves of flooring, thus doing away
| with any mortar or cement TO hold them
| The ends of each block tit together with
| something like dove tail.
The whale that was stranded on the beach
near the Old beacon lights at Fernandina
last Sunday night was visited by large
number Of people Sunday. lie lies well up
on the sand, ON the starboard beam, with
| his head pointing toward the st. Johns in
let and his tail toward the polar star, and
| broad, open-faced smile on the port side of
his countenance. He is about one-half foot
short of 40 feet long, with proportionate
beam, and would probably register several
tons. His activity ceased some time since,
and. boing "A veritable 'mossback," he IL
covered with luxuriant growth Of the
| parasite from which he gains his name, and
! which. though II may not add 30 his beauty,
! gives him an antiqunted appearance well In
keeping with a leewafd examination. Ho
/ can be approached from tho windward very
/ closely, but from the opposite point one
does not fail 30 notice that the ani.aal Is
dead, and that the fact is both strong and
| obvious
The longshOremen's strike al Feinnndina
/ n gaining Roadway daily, aud is extending
l " Uher hfnnehne Of labor Ia town. N0ne
of tbe railroad hands refused % unload cars
If hmbpr Monday, and the situation 10 get
ting quite serious Que Of the largest labor